The Spirit-wrestlers: A Russian Journey
- ISBN-10
- 0002558521
- ISBN-13
- 9780002558525
- Category
- Caucasus
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Author
- Philip Marsden
Description
In villages unseen by outsiders since before the revolution, Phillip Marsden encounters men and women of courage, dazed by the century's turbulence. He meets such figures as the Yezidi Sheikh of Sheikhs, Pushkin the wandering doctor and an exiled Georgian prince.
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